 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...CHAMELEON. As the Chameleon who is known To have no colors of his own; But borrows from his neighbor's hue His white or black, his green or blue; And struts...ready light, Which credit gives him upon sight, As if tne rainbow were in tail Settled on him and his heirs male; So the young 'squire, when first he comes... | |
 | John Timbs - Animal behavior - 1869 - 374 pages
...air, receives The colour of the thing to which it cleaves." Prior has — " As the Chameleon, which is known To have no colours of his own, But borrows...neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue." Gay, in his charming fable of the Spaniel and the Chameleon, " scarce distinguished from the green,"... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...shooting from another's head Extracts his brains, and principle is fled. Pore. As the chameleon, which is known To have no colours of his own, But borrows...neighbour's hue, His white or black, his green or blue. PRIOR. As I blow this feather from my face, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...shooting from another's head Extracts his brains, and principle is fled. POPE. As the chameleon, which is known To have no colours of his own, But borrows...neighbour's hue, His white or black, his green or blue. PRIOR. As I blow this feather from my face, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another... | |
 | James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - 318 pages
...an epithet to express sycophancy and vacillation of purpose. Prior says: — "As the chameleon which is known To have no colours of his own But borrows from his neighbor's hue His white or black, his green or blue." And Dryden perpetuates this and a greater fallacy... | |
 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...the host of heaven confest, 1'or ever blessing, and for ever blest. MATTHEW P1UOR. 163 THE CHAMELEON. As the Chameleon, who is known To have no colours of his own ; But borrows from his neighbour's hne, His white or black, his green or blue ; And struts as much in ready light, Which credit gives... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Animals - 1886 - 256 pages
...this popular but erroneous notion : — " As the chameleon, who is known To have no colours of its own, But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue." Aristotle was acquainted with the singular motions of the eyes of the creature, and his description... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...shooting from another's head Extracts his brains, and principle is fled. POPE. As the chameleon, which is known To have no colours of his own, But borrows...neighbour's hue, His white or black, his green or blue. PRIOR. As I blow this feather from my face, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another... | |
 | Frank F. Gibson - Animals - 1904 - 222 pages
...looks upon." The same belief occurs in a poem on " The Cameleon," by Matthew Prior : " As the cameleon who is known To have no colours of his own; But borrows...neighbour's hue, His white or black, his green or blue." Unfortunately for poetic imagination, and, I may add, for the point of a speech delivered recently... | |
 | Matthew Prior - English poetry - 1905 - 404 pages
...Imperils potuit, quid MARLBURUS Armis. THE CHAMELEON. AS the Chameleon, who is known /X To have no Colors of his own ; But borrows from his Neighbour's Hue His White or Black, his Green or Blew ; And struts as much in ready Light, Which Credit gives Him upon Sight ; As if the Rain-bow were... | |
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As the Chameleon, who is known To have no colors of his own : But borrows from his neighbour's hue His white or black, his green or blue... 
